Panelists to discuss diversity tomorrow

Jacob Levin, a columnist at the IDS, will be on a panel to discuss issues of diversity, identity and cultural awareness tomorrow with Eric Love, IU’s director of diversity education.

Levin wrote a July 26 IDS column criticizing Love, as well as Sara Ivey Lucas, IU’s assistant director for housing assignments for Residential and Programs and Services and Pamela Freeman,  associate dean of students and director of the office of student ethics and anti-harassment programs for what he said was their failure to understand the lack of diversity on campus.

Other panelists will be  Caralee Jones, vice president of the African American and African Diaspora Graduate Student Society and Heather Essex, another graduate student in African American and African Diaspora Studies at IU, according to a press release.

Several cultural centers at IU created a "brown bag"  series this fall called "Choice of Colors." The first event, "Diversity at IU: What It Is, What It Is Not and What It Should Be," takes place Thursday. The program will begin at 4 p.m. in the Bridgwaters Lounge of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave, according to press release.